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The ETF Professor has mentioned the Market Vectors Coal ETF (NYSE: KOL) as a bullish play several times recently, but there's another coal ETF that may be worth taking a look at.

PowerShares Global Coal Portfolio (Nasdaq: PKOL) is up about 45% over the past six months and offers a little bit more international exposure than KOL does. PKOL fund allocates 21% to China, 21% to Australia and 13% to Indonesia.

Like KOL, PKOL holds North American coal producers like Alpha Natural Resources (NYSE: ANR), Peabody Energy (NYSE: BTU) and Consol Energy (NYSE: CNX).

KOL gets most of the attention, but don't sleep on PKOL because the returns are quite similar to those offered by its more popular rival.

Rio Tinto's divestiture of U.S. coal mines could be a blessing for investors.

A remarkable event occurred last Friday. Someone hacked into the computer files of the University of East Anglia’s Hadley Climate Research Unit. Hadley the United Kingdom’s primary climate-change site has long been a proponent of human-caused global warming. Scanning some of the emails between Hadley members and other strong global-warming proponents across the globe revealed some rather unscientific comments.Here are a few from a column by James Delingpole of the UK Telegraph newspaper from November 20:  Manipulation of evidence:I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e. ...

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The market started out a bit weak, but, managed to came back up to close in the green.  Coal stocks were strong today:  MEE +5.68%, CNX +1.88%, BTU +2.37%, ACI +2.14%.  I mentioned unusual options activities in MEE in last night’s article.  Today I bought some Jan 40 calls on MEE and took a quick [...]

This morning, retail sales numbers came in better than expected.  Investors were seemingly encouraged by the data and proceeded to push the stocks higher.  Gold, once again, made new highs, trading above $1140/ounce.  Oil also went higher.  Commodity sectors bounced today.  Coal stocks were particularly strong:  BTU +5.51%, ACI +2.9%, CNX +4.21%, MEE +6.08%.  In the morning, [...]

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